US: Dr Francis Crick, who helped discover the double helix shape of DNA, has died at the age of 88, his family said yesterday… Fri Jul 30 2004 - 01:00 ...

The 57-year-old will present a new podcast called A Question Of Science, produced by BBC Studios, as part of his new role.

Francis Crick, together with an American, James Watson, were the first to describe the double-helix structure of DNA. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is "the stuff of life".

A letter written by scientist Francis Crick describing his discovery of the double helix shape of DNA has been sold for $5.3m (£3.45m). An anonymous buyer purchased it at a New York auction on ...

HISTORY will bracket Francis Crick with Newton, Darwin and Einstein in the scientific pantheon. He did so much more than discover, with Jim Watson, the double helix, "the secret of life" - that ...

Francis Crick was an Englishman in his 30s, still without a doctorate, and a physicist by background. The second world war had interrupted his academic career, and, like many physicists after that ...

Crick wrote to his son in 1953 including a sketch of the DNA structure A letter written by scientist Francis Crick describing his discovery of the double helix shape of DNA has been sold for $5.3m ...

The drama that surrounded Francis Crick and James Watson’s 1953 unveiling of the structure of DNA is no secret — Watson described the heated competition between two British research groups in ...

Francis Crick, who died on Wednesday aged 88, was the most important biologist of the 20th century; with his younger colleague Jim Watson, he revealed the double helix structure of DNA, the ...

Francis Crick was born on 8 June, 1916 in Northampton, the son of a shoe factory owner. He dabbled in science from an early age, once attempting, unsuccessfully, whilst in primary school, to make ...

Tributes were paid yesterday to Francis Crick, the British scientist and DNA pioneer who died at his home in California on Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. He was 88.

Francis Crick's greatest assets were his curiosity and ruthless intellect. At seminars or meetings, it was often he alone who saw the point of a question, and he would not hesitate to rephrase it ...